The recently released State Department inspector general’s report mentions that two State Department employees expressed concerns about Clinton’s email usage but were told by their boss that her usage had been approved by the department’s lawyers when it had not, and “that the matter was not to be discussed any further.” Media reports have identified that boss as John Bentel. (Yahoo News, 5/27/2016)

Clinton is asked about this in an interview, and says, “I do not know who that person is or, you know, what that person might have said because it’s not anything that I am aware of. […] I certainly never instructed anyone to hide the fact I was using a personal email. It was obvious to hundreds of people, visible to the many people that I was emailing throughout the State Department and the rest of the federal government.”

However, Clinton fails to mention that the problem was not her using a private email account, which was allowed. It was using a private email account for the majority of day-to-day business, which was not. (Politico, 5/31/2016)

Howard Krongard, who was the State Department’s inspector general from 2005 to 2008, says he “would have been stunned had I been asked to send an email to [Clinton] at a personal server, private address. I would have declined to do so on security grounds and if she had sent one to me, I probably would have started an investigation.”

Krongard also suggests that Clinton benefited from the lack of a permanent inspector general for the entire duration of her tenure as secretary of state. “They are the people who enforce the rules, and there was no one enforcing the rules during that time.” (Fox News, 5/31/2016)

Journalist Chris Hayes asks Clinton, “I need to ask you if you have been contacted by the FBI about an interview regarding the email situation.” Clinton replies, “No, we do not have an interview scheduled.”

This marks a change from Clinton’s previous answers to such questions, in which she said she hadn’t had any contact with the FBI over the matter. (MSNBC, 5/31/2016)

A Rasmussen Reports poll reveals that 43% of likely US voters think Clinton should stop her presidential campaign if she is charged with a felony as part of her email scandal. But 50% think she should continue her campaign until a court decides on her guilt or innocence. Some 65% consider it likely she broke the law and 30% consider it unlikely; 40% say the scandal makes them less likely to vote for her and 48% say it will have no impact on them. (Rasmussen Reports, 5/31/2016)